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Hi, Brent Abel, WebTennis.net, and continuing on our
theme of working some exercises and some drills into our fitness
program that will enhance our ability to visually track a moving
tennis ball, either when we're stationary or when we're on the move
on the court ourselves, is I want you to start trying some balance
exercises.
Because, just like we talked about last week, trying
to keep your head still is going to really sort of help your eyes be
able to track the ball better in terms of your head not jarring up
and down as you move.
A great exercise for this is simply just trying to
hold your balance.
One of the things I want you to do is - you can do
this any time of the day - I want you to be barefoot when you do
this.
I don't want you to have high tech running shoes on,
high tech tennis shoes, where it's such an unbelievable platform to
hold your balance. I want you to do this barefoot.
The way that we do it is you go ahead and you get
barefoot and you simply get your arms out to one side.
I don't want them straight out, but I want them to
feel like they're sort of hanging down, almost like a ready position
that you'd have when you're ready to receive serve in tennis, or
you're back in the baseline ready to anticipate or move for the next
groundstroke hit to you, or even if you're up at net in terms of
volleys and overheads.
But I want you to feel that you're to get into
position where your elbows are hanging down off your shoulder. You
can have your hands out to the side a little bit, but I want you to
pick up one foot.
I want you to hold your balance, and I want you to
do what we did with the sprints is where you find a stationary
object, either on the wall or maybe out in your landscape, and see
if you can hold your balance and focus on that stationary object
without the object moving at all.
Once you can do that, then I want you to try the
best part of this exercise, in terms of holding your balance, is
where you're going to shut your eyes, and if you can shut your eyes
and hold that balance for a long period of time, then you really are
doing some great stuff training-wise to be able to enhance your
ability to track that moving tennis ball.
All right, I hope today's tip has helped. Any
questions,
Brent@webtennis.net. Thanks very much. |
